A while ago, the little ones and I did an artist study on Venezuelan artist Santiago Pol, focusing on his following picture: We were very pleased by how our final art piece came out: but to be honest we hadn’t given it any more thought. That was until the artist himself (yes, Santiago Pol!) left……
Category: Homeschooling
Precious Moments Away in Northern Ireland
I love my in-laws. Every single one of them. I’ve even learnt to cope with them en mass (Gary has five siblings, who are all married and have at least two children each, you do the maths…..). I think I probably have the best sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law in the whole world and I know for……
Counting my Blessings
Last Friday we traveled home from Northern Ireland. We left at around seven Friday morning and arrived home at about 1230 Saturday morning. It was a long day. Somewhere along the line, most probably on the ferry, my littlest caught Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease. As the symptoms take 3-5 days to appear, we were……
Homeschool Legacy: Victoria and her World {Review}
I was hoping I would be chosen to review the Once-a-Week Micro-Study Victoria and Her World from Homeschool Legacy. I mean we were bang in the middle of studying the 19th century focusing on the Victorian Age, so this was just about perfect: I was excited about how it might fit into our present study, and was delighted……
Dinosaur unit study
Welcome to our incredibly rich, hugely fun Dinosaurs Unit Study! Honestly, we had a ball studying up about dinosaurs in our little homeschool. This Dinosaur unit study has a little bit of everything, from history to science to art and maths. Creating Simple Dinosaur Dress up for my Little Ones We began our unit study……
Guess Where I’ve Been For the Past Few Weeks?
We have had a wonderful time seeing friends and family, resting in the incredibly restorative Irish air. Although I have been posting occasionally, I have tried to stay away from my blog and my emails. Thank you all so much for your messages and emails, I have read and loved every single one, and I promise I will be……
CrossTimber Review
We had the honour of reviewing the name meaning gifts produced by CrossTimber. This is a family run company which offers products which include their popular Personalized Framed Plaque with Name Meaning and Bible Verse: as well as book marks, pocket cards, NameMugs and Name Music Boxes: The moment I was picked for this review I knew exactly……
Middlebury Languages Review
We were so blessed to be chosen to review Middlebury Interactive Languages and their online elementary course entitled Elementary Spanish 1: Grades K-2: How Does Middlebury Interactive Languages Elementary Spanish 1 Work? As always, I’m glad you asked! The Elementary Spanish Level 1 course is aimed at the younger students, from K through to Grade 2. It contains……
An Interview with Meeeeee……
At the beginning of August I was interviewed by the lovely Pam at EdSnapShots. I’d never been interviewed before and was a little worried I’d come across as a bit of a numpty….which I may very well have! Pam is a natural interviewer though and I lost my reservations almost immediately and completely forgot I……
What’s it like being a Member of the Homeschool Review Crew?
I thought I would write a little more about the process of becoming a member of the crew and what it is like in the trenches so to speak. I applied last year with apprehension. I was scared, out of my comfort zone and trying to push myself to do something which felt hard. In……
Calling All Potential Homeschool Reviewers!
I am posting this again with the hope that some of my blogging friends may see it and opt to pop over to The Homeschool Review Crew to find out more (link at bottom of post). I also wanted to add this to my last post: Your blogs do not need to be huge blogs;……
Can I Have a Well Stocked Pantry Without an Actual Pantry?
I have this goal…..a long held, nearly impossible (for me) goal, but one I shall keep working on until the day I die. That goal? To have a well stoked, well organised pantry. Thing is, I don’t own a pantry. I don’t really even own kitchen cupboards which we could use as a pantry. We……
Precious Moments – Reflections
Well, we made it! The end of an excellent six week term. For me this term was all about encouraging the older children to almost complete autonomy and stepping up with my younger two. And to some extent this has been fairly successful. Each Friday I conference with each of my teens one to one. ……
Opportunity to be a Member of the Homeschool Review Crew
This year I have had the privilege of being a member of the Homeschool Review Crew. It felt very scary to even apply, I mean, I had never written a review before and wasn’t sure I would be very good at it to be honest. I’m so pleased I did though! I have found, to……
Online Christian Filmmakers Academy {Review}
I practically begged to have the chance to review Online Christian Filmmakers Academy from Family Gravity Media, a division of Families For Christ Ministries, Inc. I knew it would appeal to my son, who has always enjoyed electronics of any sort, and also my girls. Charlotte wants to film videos of herself singing self-penned worship songs on YouTube……